The post is a summary of how things look today and under related reading I have included some past posts that may offer a few more details on how the shift it taking place today. Things are also happening and humming as well in China and you can search and find some recent relative posts here as...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-20-2008
Filed under: Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, healthcare, Pharma, clinical trials, R and D, India, Economics, Mayo Clinic, Outsourcing, Employment, China pharma
Instead of removing a lung, the windpipe transplant was the solution, and this occurred in Spain. Once the donor was located the physicians went to work with stripping off all its cells, leaving only a tube of connective tissue and next used a device to put the new cartilage and tissue in place...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-19-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Surgery, healthcare, Heatlhcare, R and D, Stem Cells, Transplants, windpipe, breatkthrough, tuberculosis
It is still at the mice testing stage, but 80% tested had a reversal of diabetes and in other cases it prevented the onset of diabetes. Side effects, etc. will need to be studied as well, but this looks very promising if in fact the drugs can prevent diabetes for many, especially children if their...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-19-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, personalized medicine, healthcare, Cancer, Diabetes, R and D, San Francisco University of California
This is a real interesting merger with a biotech company patient-specific immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and other diseases of the immune system merging with a company that provides personal health records, both companies from California. Favrille is involved in clinical trials...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-10-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Biotech, PHR, Google Health, Cancer, clinical trials, Personal Health Records, R and D
Great effort on the members of Congress to “ask”, but the end result is what counts. R and D with major pharmaceutical companies is presently in the business of moving overseas to India and China, as well as some clinical trials, so the impact of the request from the members of Congress may or...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-04-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, healthcare, clinical trials, Pfizer, China, R and D, India, Outsourcing
New technology in development, a card that you would swipe just as is done with credit cards. As listed below the card could give instant information relative to PSA testing, Herpes, and markers with personalized medicine. The results would be within a few minutes instead of days or even...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-30-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Labs, Medical Tests, healthcare, R and D, Blood, Disease, infections
This interview from Charlie Roses touches on many items and Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus adds what he has been able to accomplish in his part of the world in Bangladesh and how some of those principles can be applied here, coming together of both sides, different minds, different ideas that can...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-28-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, healthcare, Biotech, Cancer, Pharmaceuticals, R and D, Economy, Banking, Milken Institute, Mahammed Yunus, Milken, Charlie Rose